National Poetry Month List 2021: Home

• If They Come For Us by Fatimah Asghar 
• The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks by Gwendolyn Brooks & selected by Elizabeth Alexander
• 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
• Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
• Finna by Nate Marshall
• Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez
• Lessons on Expulsion by Erika L. Sánchez 
• Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg 

Many of these incredible (and often award-winning!) novels are written for teens and middle grade readers, but there are novels in verse for all ages--and anyone can enjoy these!

• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo 
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 
• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander 
• They Call Me Güero by David Bowles 
• Jazz Owls by Margarita Engle 
• Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess by Shari Green
• Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai 
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds 
• Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga 
• Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson 
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam 

• Concerto al-Quds by Adonis 
• Light for the World to See by Kwame Alexander 
• A Theory of Birds by Zaina Alsous 
• The Tradition by Jericho Brown 
• DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi 
• The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
• Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo 
• A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing by DaMaris B. Hill 
• Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance by Fady Joudah 
• Madwomen: The Locas Mujeres Poems of Gabriela Mistral by Gabriela Mistral
• The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon by Willie Perdomo 
• While They Sleep (Under the Bed Is Another Country) by Raquel Salas Rivera 
• Lima :: Limón by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
• Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
• Sight Lines by Arthur Sze

Here you'll find a few recent poetry anthologies--but these are far from the only anthologies available to you.

• Halal If You Hear Me edited by Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillo
• LatiNext edited by Felicia Chávez, José Olivarez, & Willie Perdomo
• When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through edited by Joy Harjo 
• Baghdad: The City in Verse edited & translated by Reuvin Snir 
• Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color edited by Christopher Soto

There are a great many picture books that are also poetry, so start here and go far!

• Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, Marjorie Wentworth, & Ekua Holmes
• The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander & Kadir Nelson
• Bronzeville Boys & Girls by Gwendolyn Brooks 
• The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper & Carson Ellis
• A Place Inside Of Me by Zetta Elliott & Noa Denmon 
• Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle & Rafael López 
• Eyes that Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho & Dung Ho
• We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom & Michaela Goade 
• Double Bass Blues by Andrea Loney & Rudy Gutiérrez 
• Dreamers by Yuyi Morales 
• Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein 

• The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers by Derek Attridge 
• Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry by Peter Campion 
• Left of Poetry: Depression America and the Formation of Modern Poetics by Sarah Ehlers 
• Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form edited by Ben Glaser and Jonathan Culler
• The Dangers of Poetry: Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq by Kevin M. Jones
• The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance by Philip Metres